Common Voice Scripted Speech 25.0 - Xhosa

IsiXhosa — Xhosa (xh)

This datasheet is for cv-corpus-25.0-2026-03-09 of the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Xhosa [IsiXhosa - xh]. The dataset contains 30 clips representing 0.04 hours of recorded speech (0.01 hours validated) from 4 speakers, recorded from a text corpus of 16,398 sentences.

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following self-declared age and gender distributions. A coverage summary is shown below each table.

Gender

Self-declared gender information. The table shows clip and speaker counts with percentages. Speakers who did not declare a gender are listed as Unspecified. A dash (-) indicates zero.

Gender declared: 0 of 30 clips (0.0%), 0 of 4 speakers (0.0%)

Age

Self-declared age information. The table shows clip and speaker counts with percentages. Speakers who did not declare an age are listed as Unspecified. A dash (-) indicates zero.

Age declared: 0 of 30 clips (0.0%), 0 of 4 speakers (0.0%)

Data splits for modelling

Clip buckets

Training splits

Training split coverage: 9 of 9 validated clips (100.0%)

The dataset contains 9 validated, 2 invalidated, and 19 unresolved clips. The average clip duration is 5.99 seconds.

Text corpus

Validated sentences: 1,476

The corpus contains 16,398 sentences: 1,476 validated and 14,922 unvalidated (14,922 pending review, 0 rejected), with 0 reported for review.

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.

1. Emva koko chazela umlingane wakho ngendlela ezahluka ngayo izivakalisi ngokwentsingiselo.

2. umama notata wam babetshatile kangangeminyaka emihlanu phambi kokuzalwa kwam

3. umfo wayenxibe impahla entsha emtshatweni

4. Ukuba ngaba kunjalo, nceda ubonisane nomhlohli wakho okanye lowo wongamele umsebenzi wakho.

5. Wababona abantwana bakhe besikolo beme bayame ngodonga ngathi ziigusha zisoyiswa lilanga.

Sources

Fields

Clips

Each row of a tsv file represents a single audio clip, and contains the following information:

• client_id - hashed UUID of a given user

• path - relative path of the audio file

• text - supposed transcription of the audio

• up_votes - number of people who said audio matches the text

• down_votes - number of people who said audio does not match text

• age - age of the speaker1

• gender - gender of the speaker1

• accents - accents of the speaker1

• variant - variant of the language1

• segment - if sentence belongs to a custom dataset segment, it will be listed here

• prompt_upvotes - number of upvotes the sentence prompt received

• prompt_reports - number of reports the sentence prompt received

• is_edited - whether the clip's transcription has been edited

validated_sentences.tsv

The validated_sentences.tsv file contains one row per validated sentence in the text corpus:

• sentence_id - unique identifier for the sentence

• sentence - the sentence text

• variant - the variant of the language

• sentence_domain - the domain(s) the sentence belongs to

• source - the source the sentence was collected from

• is_used - whether the sentence is still in circulation for recording

• clips_count - number of clips recorded for this sentence

unvalidated_sentences.tsv

The unvalidated_sentences.tsv file contains one row per unvalidated sentence in the text corpus:

• sentence_id - unique identifier for the sentence

• sentence - the sentence text

• variant - the variant of the language

• sentence_domain - the domain(s) the sentence belongs to

• source - the source the sentence was collected from

• up_votes - number of upvotes the sentence received

• down_votes - number of downvotes the sentence received

• status - current status of the sentence (pending or rejected)

Get involved

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

• Common Voice Communities

Discussions

• Common Voice on Matrix

• Common Voice on Discourse

• Common Voice on Discord

• Common Voice on Telegram

Contribute

• Speak

• Write

• Listen

• Review

Licence

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Zero (CC-0) licence. By downloading this data you agree to not determine the identity of speakers in the dataset.

Footnotes

1. For a full list of age, gender, and accent options, see the demographics spec. These will only be reported if the speaker opted in to provide that information. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4